Friday, April 27, 2012

Allan Quatermain by H.R. Haggard.

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Classic

Allan
Quatermain, is an 1887 novel by H.R. Haggard. (US Edition) (UK Edition) Those who have
read King Soloman’s Mines will recognize the name of the novel’s colorful
hero. He was featured in a number of
books and stories by Haggard.

Sometimes I think the reading public may be divided into
those who will immediately download this book after reading the following excerpt
and those who will stop reading this blog at that point.

What I have to propose is this.
That we go to Lamu and thence make our way about 250 miles inland to Mt Kenia;
from Mt Kenia on inland to Mt Lekakisera, another 200 miles, or thereabouts,
beyond which no white man has to the best of my belief ever been; and then, if
we get so far, right on into the unknown interior.

Either way I could quit now.
But I will still offer a bit more as chances are I do not know the readings
public as well as I think!

. . . but the appearance of the
third and last nearly made me jump out of my skin. He was a very tall, broad
man, quite six foot three, I should say, but gaunt, with lean, wiry-looking
limbs. My first glance at him told me that he was no Wakwafi: he was a pure
bred Zulu. He came out with his thin aristocratic-looking hand placed before
his face to hide a yawn, so I could only see that he was a 'Keshla' or ringed
man, and that he had a great three-cornered hole in his forehead. In another
second he removed his hand, revealing a powerful-looking Zulu face, with a
humorous mouth, a short woolly beard, tinged with grey, and a pair of brown
eyes keen as a hawk's. I knew my man at once, although I had not seen him for
twelve years. 'How do you do, Umslopogaas?' I said quietly in Zulu.

Haggard is well known as an adventure writer whose work has
always been popular.

The book has a couple dozen end short end notes, which are
unlinked.

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I am a Hoosier who spent many years in Chicago and am now in San Antonio. My passion is reuniting lost dogs with their families. I am the Director of the Facebook page, Lost Dogs of Texas and a co-founder of "Lost Dog Awareness Day."

I am not new to reuniting families. After Katrina, I helped people in evacuee shelters in San Antonio to track their missing family members. After that work ended, I started a volunteer group that reunited over 1500 Katrina animals with their families by deciphering information online and tracing evacuees.

I am writing a book about two stolen Yorkies who were found after an amazing eighteeen month search. It is tentatively titled "Finding Baxter and Cooper: A Woman, a Private Investigator and their Successful Search for Two Stolen Dogs."